προσδοκία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From προσδοκάω (prosdokáō, “I expect”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /proz.do.kí.aː/ → /proz.ðoˈci.a/ → /proz.ðoˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /proz.do.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /proz.doˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /proz.ðoˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /proz.ðoˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /proz.ðoˈci.a/

Noun

προσδοκῐ́ᾱ • (prosdokíā) f (genitive προσδοκῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. expectation
   • Luke 21:26

     ἀποψυχόντων ἀνθρώπων ἀπὸ φόβου καὶ προσδοκίας τῶν ἐπερχομένων τῇ οἰκουμένῃ· αἱ γὰρ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν σαλευθήσονται.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ προσδοκῐ́ᾱ; τῆς προσδοκῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ προσδοκῐ́ᾱ hē prosdokíā	τὼ προσδοκῐ́ᾱ tṑ prosdokíā	αἱ προσδοκῐ́αι hai prosdokíai
Genitive	τῆς προσδοκῐ́ᾱς tês prosdokíās	τοῖν προσδοκῐ́αιν toîn prosdokíain	τῶν προσδοκῐῶν tôn prosdokiôn
Dative	τῇ προσδοκῐ́ᾳ têi prosdokíāi	τοῖν προσδοκῐ́αιν toîn prosdokíain	ταῖς προσδοκῐ́αις taîs prosdokíais
Accusative	τὴν προσδοκῐ́ᾱν tḕn prosdokíān	τὼ προσδοκῐ́ᾱ tṑ prosdokíā	τᾱ̀ς προσδοκῐ́ᾱς tā̀s prosdokíās
Vocative	προσδοκῐ́ᾱ prosdokíā	προσδοκῐ́ᾱ prosdokíā	προσδοκῐ́αι prosdokíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: προσδοκία (prosdokía) (learned)

Further reading

• “προσδοκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “προσδοκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• προσδοκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4329 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• προσδοκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anticipation idem, page 32.
  • apprehension idem, page 36.
  • expectation idem, page 293.
  • hope idem, page 405.
  • outlook idem, page 582.
  • prospect idem, page 653.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσδοκία (prosdokía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾoz.ðoˈci.a/
• Hyphenation: προσ‧δο‧κί‧α

Noun

προσδοκία • (prosdokía) f (plural προσδοκίες)

1. expectation (that which is expected or looked for)

   Μεγάλες Προσδοκίες (Dickens novel) ― Megáles Prosdokíes ― Great Expectations

   Το προϊόν δεν ανταποκρίθηκε στις προσδοκίες μου.

   To proïón den antapokríthike stis prosdokíes mou.

   The product did not meet my expectations.

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	προσδοκία (prosdokía)	προσδοκίες (prosdokíes)
genitive	προσδοκίας (prosdokías)	προσδοκιών (prosdokión)
accusative	προσδοκία (prosdokía)	προσδοκίες (prosdokíes)
vocative	προσδοκία (prosdokía)	προσδοκίες (prosdokíes)

Related terms

• προσδοκώ (prosdokó)